GROSBEA XK, 
yellow quite acrofs the back and wing coverts: the tail is cunei- 
form in fhape, and nearly half the length of the bird: bill and 
legs dufky. 
Inhabits Whidah in Africa; and, if the bird above referred 
to in Salerne*, is fometimes met with in Senegal. 
Golden-backed Finch, Brown’s II. pl. 25. 
ENGTH fix inches. Bill, head, and neck, deep black; 
the feathers not velvety, as in the Cape Grofbeak: back of a 
rich golden yellow: wing coverts of a light brown, fpotted with 
black : breaft and belly black: legs blueifh. 
Inhabits Benguelo. ‘This bird is in the mufeum of M. Tunftal, 
Efq. On further examination, I find that the whole back, 
rump, and upper tail coverts, are yellow; the ends of the two 
laft fringed with dufky ; and all the tail feathers, except the two 
middle ones, very pale at the edges. 
Loxia groffa, Liz. Sy/. i. p. 307. N° 44. 
Le Gros-bec bleu d’Amerique, Brif. ornz. app. p. 89. pl. 5. f. 1.— Buf. oi/. 
iil, p. 456.—P/. enl. 154. (Female.) 
Br. Muf. 
LENG T H feven inches and a half.- Bill very ftout, and red: 
the general colour of the plumage deep blue: the bill is 
furrounded with black, which paffes downwards before, and co- 
vers the fore part of the neck; in the middle of this, on the 
* This author fays, that the tail is as long as the body ; the middle feathers 
one-third longer than the outer ones: that the head and neck are like velvet ; 
and the-colour of the upper part of the back of a deep yellow. 
(0) chin 
11g 
PLACE. 
9: 
GOLD: 
BACKED SR. 
DescRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
10. 
WHITE 
THROATED 
DescrRIPTION. 
